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The Existentialist Ordeal of Michael Fraenkel—II by Will Slotnikoff gives Trace no. 69 its clearest point of entry, while Towards Print by James Boyer May and (words: in Our Time, & widen the issue’s field. Dated 1968, this expansive number indexes 212 pieces or named sections, moving between literary argument, creative work, reviews, correspondence, and the practical business of little-magazine culture. The order matters: recurring editorial features sit beside contributions with their own formal and critical demands, so the magazine reads as an active conversation rather than a neutral container. The reader’s edition makes that sequence easy to follow; the original scan preserves the cover, page design, advertisements, visual material, and directory apparatus that locate the writing in its first publication. Together, the two editions show James Boyer May sustaining both a literary forum and a working map of the independent publishing network.

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  • The Existentialist Ordeal of Michael Fraenkel—II — Will Slotnikoff [Essay, p. 14]
  • Towards Print — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 31]
  • (words: in Our Time, & [Contribution, p. 300]
  • Years Ago) — James Boyer May [Contribution, p. 31]
  • Escape [Contribution, p. 35]
  • Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 36]
  • We Are They (Isn’t It Wonderful?) [Contribution, p. 36]
  • Regarding Acanemia, Street-itis, Cclm & other Jabberwocky — Street-itis Regarding Acanemia [Contribution, p. 39]
  • To Edit — Or Not to Edit [Contribution, p. 39]
  • The Poet as Translator — Gene Fowler [Contribution, p. 41]
  • Apostle of Life: Robert P. Tristram Coffin — Abigail Ann Hamblen [Essay, p. 47]
  • James Hiner [Contribution, p. 56]
  • The Missile (Missal) is the Message — James Hiner [Fiction, p. 56]
  • An Interview — James Hiner [Interview, p. 56]
  • Quality Book Production [Contribution, p. 62]
  • The Reason [Contribution, p. 63]
  • In Memory of Christopher Perret — James D. Bertolino [Contribution, p. 64]
  • Tragedy in ragtime for five instruments — Michael Franks [Contribution, p. 69]
  • H. P. Lovecraft — Laurence A. Goldstein [Contribution, p. 81]
  • Richard Ii Forty — Louis Aragon [Contribution, p. 84]
  • Tunnel of the Century — Murilo Mendes [Contribution, p. 87]
  • Portrait — Edward Pharr [Contribution, p. 97]
  • High Society, Iowa City, Iowa — Stephen Dobyns [Contribution, p. 99]
  • The Lake — H Dumas [Fiction, p. 100]
  • Mendelssohn’s Italian & the Spring of 1964 — E. F. Casebeer [Fiction, p. 104]
  • The Mannequins — Jay Bail [Fiction, p. 109]
  • Jay Bail [Contribution, p. 119]
  • Jay Bail [Contribution, p. 123]
  • A gathering of haiku four — John Tagliabue [Poem, p. 131]
  • Promethean Fragment — Donald Freed [Contribution, p. 132]
  • The Jew of Frankfurt — Bruce Cook [Fiction, p. 134]
  • Porter, What Is This Thing Called Love and Mad About the Boy [Contribution, p. 146]
  • Someone Else — Daniel Eigerman [Contribution, p. 153]
  • A Film Sketch, by N. H. Taylor — N. H. Taylor [Fiction, p. 155]
  • Smoke and Little Fire — Martin Tucker [Poem, p. 165]
  • Decline & Fall (once Again) of the Short Story — L. W. Michaelson [Contribution, p. 166]
  • One of Our Small Wings Is Missing — Charles Goldberg [Poem, p. 170]
  • Keeno to Cannes: a Journey — A. Fredric Franklyn [Essay, p. 171]
  • A Poet, & the Alchemy of Love — Anais Nin [Essay, p. 197]
  • In Unknown Lands — H. L. Van Brunt [Essay, p. 199]
  • The Lovers — Kenneth Bernard [Contribution, p. 202]
  • CHARACTERS: Adam, Evie. Both are in their mid-twenties Neither is very attractive, but this is in part the result of dress and attitude rather than poor features [Contribution, p. 202]
  • First performed at The Actors’ Studio, 432 W. 44th St., New York City [Contribution, p. 211]
  • Eric Cashen: Two Fears . . . Drive . . . & . . . a fragment — Joan Miller [Contribution, p. 211]
  • Aarons, Hilda (california): the End of Confusion [Contribution, p. 214]
  • Adamson, J. J. (washington): Strawberry [Contribution, p. 215]
  • Aragon, Louis: Offertory (tr. by Rosemary Wells-marie) [Contribution, p. 216]
  • Richard Ii Forty (do.) [Contribution, p. 216]
  • Bail, Jay (california): the Mannequins [Contribution, p. 217]
  • Banks, Russell (north Carolina): to Give the Lie [Contribution, p. 218]
  • Barth, Lawrence (new York): Winter Afternoon, 1923 [Contribution, p. 219]
  • Behrendt, Steve (Wisconsin): untitled poem [Poem, p. 219]
  • Benig, Irving (New York): autopoe m [Contribution, p. 219]
  • For raymond — Irving Benig [Poem, p. 219]
  • un poèm c’est bien peu de chose [Contribution, p. 219]
  • Bernard, Kenneth (new York): the Lovers [Contribution, p. 220]
  • Bertolino, James D. (wisconsin): Bird Mother [Contribution, p. 221]
  • Bitts, Jerry A. (illinois): the Teachers’ Party [Contribution, p. 222]
  • Blei, Norbert (illinois): the Letter Carrier [Contribution, p. 223]
  • Brown, Bruce Bennett (kentucky): Great Stone Fireplace [Contribution, p. 224]
  • Old Conversation [Contribution, p. 224]
  • View from the Field [Contribution, p. 224]
  • Bruce, Lennart (california): My Business [Contribution, p. 225]
  • The Commission [Contribution, p. 225]
  • Burns, Jerry H. (california): Mole Watching [Contribution, p. 226]
  • Butcher, Grace (ohio): Some Sort of Death [Contribution, p. 227]
  • Calhoun, D. (new Mexico): the Accident [Contribution, p. 228]
  • Candelaria, Frederick (Canada): A FABLE FOR RAT PSYCHOLOGISTS, ADMINISTRATORS, & MANIPULATORS [Contribution, p. 228]
  • Carter, Boyd (missouri): Space [Contribution, p. 229]
  • Casebeer, E. F. (indiana): Mendelssohn’s Italian & the Spring of 1964 — E. F. Casebeer [Fiction, p. 229]
  • fragment [Contribution, p. 229]
  • Castle, Frederick (New York): Youth Is Power One [Contribution, p. 229]
  • Chaffin, Lillie D. (kentucky): Letter : a Detachment [Contribution, p. 230]
  • Cheney, L. Stanley (california): the Day Seems Bloated [Contribution, p. 231]
  • Claire, William F. (District of Columbia): Some Notes on the Southeastern Little Magazine Conference [Contribution, p. 231]
  • Contoski, Victor (Wisconsin) (Tr. fr. the Polish of Marek Skwarnicki): LESSON & THE ROAD TO EDEN [Contribution, p. 231]
  • The Same Cowboy Rides Again [Contribution, p. 231]
  • Cook, Bruce (maryland): the Jew of Frankfurt [Contribution, p. 232]
  • Cooperman, Stanley (Canada): ‘A Call for Poets to Stop Apologizing . . .’ [Contribution, p. 232]
  • Cummings, Steve (canada): Family Portrait [Contribution, p. 233]
  • Dalton, Dorothy (wisconsin): This Wooing of Strangers [Contribution, p. 234]
  • Daruwalla, Keki N. (india): Aftermath [Contribution, p. 235]
  • The Pebble Heap — a fable [Contribution, p. 235]
  • Routine [Contribution, p. 235]
  • untitled poem — Karen Koshgarian [Poem, p. 235]
  • D’Lott, Barry (New York): ONE OF THE INTIMATE MEMOIRS of Alvin Edward Cooper [Contribution, p. 235]
  • High Society, Iowa City, Iowa [Contribution, p. 236]
  • After the Rose, the Sand [Contribution, p. 237]
  • Capital Punishment [Contribution, p. 238]
  • My Neighbor the World [Contribution, p. 239]
  • That Time of Day [Contribution, p. 240]
  • The Cabbage [Contribution, p. 241]
  • The Lake — H Dumas [Fiction, p. 242]
  • Epitaph [Contribution, p. 243]
  • Someone Else [Contribution, p. 244]
  • Regarding Acanemia, Street-itis [Contribution, p. 245]
  • Songs Taught, Songs Untaught [Contribution, p. 246]
  • very dark [Contribution, p. 247]
  • The ‘Overlapping Informal’ Academies [Contribution, p. 247]
  • The Poet and the 20th Century [Contribution, p. 248]
  • Poet as Translator [Contribution, p. 249]
  • The Joke of Life [Contribution, p. 250]
  • A Relevant Rebuttal from Venezuela [Contribution, p. 251]
  • Sur-rebutterl on Latin American Mags [Contribution, p. 252]
  • Deadlier Than the Plot! [Contribution, p. 253]
  • Keeno to Cannes [Contribution, p. 254]
  • Rome Boat Thing on Its End [Contribution, p. 255]
  • Poem for my wife [Poem, p. 256]
  • Roethke — Michael Franks [Poem, p. 257]
  • Tragedy in ragtime [Contribution, p. 258]
  • Promethean Fragment — Donald Freed [Contribution, p. 259]
  • Time Caught Us by the Forelock [Contribution, p. 260]
  • One of Our Small Wings Is Missing — Charles Goldberg [Poem, p. 261]
  • Aubade [Contribution, p. 262]
  • H. P. Lovecraft [Contribution, p. 263]
  • Against the Dark [Contribution, p. 264]
  • The Need to Write [Contribution, p. 265]
  • Dive for Dreams [Contribution, p. 266]
  • Village on the Seashore — John Hideyo Hamamura [Poem, p. 267]
  • Apostle of Life [Contribution, p. 268]
  • Edward Albee [Contribution, p. 269]
  • Poetasting [Contribution, p. 270]
  • The Last Concert [Contribution, p. 271]
  • The Strongest Magic [Contribution, p. 272]
  • The Missile (Missal) Is the Message — James Hiner [Fiction, p. 272]
  • Ikon [Contribution, p. 273]
  • Drosophilia Melanogaster [Contribution, p. 274]
  • Frau Heinz [Contribution, p. 275]
  • Letter from the Unmagic Street [Contribution, p. 276]
  • TO W. K. (1919-1945) [Contribution, p. 276]
  • untitled poem — Karen Koshgarian [Poem, p. 277]
  • Confessions [Contribution, p. 278]
  • How Now Next Time? [Contribution, p. 279]
  • In the Underground Station — Ronald B Koertge [Contribution, p. 280]
  • The Women [Contribution, p. 281]
  • untitled poem — Karen Koshgarian [Poem, p. 282]
  • Taking the Stones [Contribution, p. 283]
  • Message in a Bottle [Contribution, p. 284]
  • good wood burns well and is none the less consumed [Contribution, p. 285]
  • 3:30 in the life of an intelligent man [Contribution, p. 286]
  • That February [Contribution, p. 287]
  • Love and Death in the Early Poems of Walter Lowenfels [Poem, p. 288]
  • To Edit — Or Not to Edit [Contribution, p. 288]
  • A Lively Museum of Youth and Desire [Contribution, p. 289]
  • The Opening — Helen Luster [Poem, p. 290]
  • Excerpts from a Novel in Progress [Contribution, p. 291]
  • For Who(m) May Be Concerned [Contribution, p. 292]
  • Paragraphs [Contribution, p. 293]
  • The Lions [Contribution, p. 294]
  • Morning (do.) [Contribution, p. 295]
  • Tunnel of the Century (do.) [Contribution, p. 296]
  • Anti-war Poetry [Contribution, p. 297]
  • The Thief [Contribution, p. 298]
  • Icon Twenty Four [Contribution, p. 299]
  • Lament [Contribution, p. 300]
  • Stop and Rest [Contribution, p. 301]
  • A Poet, & the Alchemy of Love — Anais Nin [Essay, p. 302]
  • The Evening [Contribution, p. 303]
  • Bombers and Mrs. Bunjes [Contribution, p. 304]
  • Numbers: 69 [Contribution, p. 305]
  • Numbers: 103 [Contribution, p. 306]
  • Numbers: 104 [Contribution, p. 307]
  • My Successful Novel: Two Sides [Contribution, p. 308]
  • (of the story) [Contribution, p. 308]
  • Poetry in the Theatre — Vi [Contribution, p. 309]
  • Man in Universe — Lee Pennington [Poem, p. 310]
  • untitled poems — Karen Koshgarian [Poem, p. 311]
  • (War Picture at the Drive-In) [Contribution, p. 311]
  • Probably No Good for the Magazine? [Contribution, p. 312]
  • Spiropanosome: a bacteriological tragedy [Contribution, p. 312]
  • on trying to write — Robert Peters [Contribution, p. 313]
  • Emigrant [Contribution, p. 314]
  • Morning — Helen Luster [Poem, p. 315]
  • Tunnel of the Century [Contribution, p. 316]
  • Portrait [Contribution, p. 317]
  • Vienna 1967 [Contribution, p. 318]
  • The Poet & the Community [Contribution, p. 319]
  • Northern California [Contribution, p. 320]
  • End of a Season [Contribution, p. 321]
  • A Domestic Animal [Contribution, p. 322]
  • Apo Etsp Rogr Ess [Contribution, p. 323]
  • Still Life with Bottle [Contribution, p. 324]
  • The House of the Mind Is a [Contribution, p. 324]
  • House of Cards [Contribution, p. 325]
  • Whitnall Park [Contribution, p. 326]
  • XXV [Contribution, p. 326]
  • The Other Track [Contribution, p. 327]
  • ‘In the Rain’ [Contribution, p. 327]
  • Every Celestial Body Loves Saturday — Barry N. Schwartz [Contribution, p. 328]
  • Night [Contribution, p. 328]
  • Golden Horses [Contribution, p. 329]
  • Once More with Feeling [Contribution, p. 330]
  • Legacy [Contribution, p. 331]
  • When Honesty Is Policy [Contribution, p. 332]
  • Some Notes on Hiroshima Mon Amour [Contribution, p. 333]
  • There Are Moments [Contribution, p. 333]
  • The Road to Eden [Contribution, p. 334]
  • Lesson [Contribution, p. 334]
  • The Rape of the Spider of [Contribution, p. 335]
  • Vera Cruz [Contribution, p. 335]
  • In Unknown Lands — J ••• Theodore Sloane [Essay, p. 336]
  • The Existentialist Ordeal of [Contribution, p. 337]
  • Michael Frankel [Contribution, p. 337]
  • A Box of Three [Contribution, p. 338]
  • (by artists) [Contribution, p. 339]
  • (by authors of books reviewed) [Review, p. 339]
  • (by playwrights, scenarists, directors . . .) [Contribution, p. 339]
  • The Chronicle [Reference, p. 340]
  • Photographs [Artwork, p. 341]
  • Drawing and Photographs [Artwork, p. 342]
  • Photographs [Artwork, p. 343]
  • The 1968-69 Address List [Reference, p. 344]
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